Theogony

By Hesiod

Translated by H.G. Eveyln-White
 

• Part 1 (1 - 115)
• Part 2 (116 - 206)
• Part 3 (207-305)
• Part 4 (306-403)
• Part 5 (404-506)
• Part 6 (507-612)
• Part 7 (613 - 712)
• Part 8 (713 - 806)
• Part 9 (807 - 900)
• Part 10 (901 - 1022)

Proemium: Hymn to the Muses  of Helicon (1 - 104)

1. Chaos and The First Gods (105 - 122)
• Chaos: "Chasm" (116)
• Gaia or Gaea: "Earth" (116)
• Tartaros or Tartarus (119)
• Eros: "Love" (120)
• Erebos or Erebus: "Gloom" (123)
• Nyx: "Night" (123)
2. The Second Generation: Children of the First Gods 
• Children of Night
• (fathered by Erebos)
  Aither or Ether: "Brightness" (125)
  Hemere or Hemera: "Day" (125)
• (produced asexually: 211 - 232)
• Children of Gaia
1. First Brood (produced asexually)

Ouranos or Uranus: "Sky" (126)
Mountains (129)
Pontos or Pontus: "Sea" (131)

2. Second Brood (Children of Gaia and Ouranos)
• The Titans
  Okeanos or Oceanus: "Ocean" (133)
  Koios or Coeus (134)
  Kreios or Crius  (134)
  Hyperion (134)
  Iapetos or Iapetus  (134)
  Theia or Thea: "Goddess" (135)
  Rheia or Rhea  (135)
  Themis: "Custom" (135)
  Mnemosyne: "Memory" (135)
  Phoibe or Phoebe (163)
  Tethys (136)
  Kronos or Cronus (137)
• The Kyklopes (139 - 146)
  Brontes: "Thunder" (140)
  Steropes: "Lightning"  (140)
  Arges: "Flash" (140)
• The Hekatonkheires or Hecatonchires: "Hundred-Handers"   (147 - 153)
  Kottos or Cottus (149)
  Briareos or  Briareus  (149)
  Gyges  (149)
3. Third Brood, born through the Castration of Ouranos  (154 - 210)
• from the Drops of Blood that Fell from Ouranos'  Genitals onto Gaia (178 - 187)

Erinyes: "Furies"  (185)
Gigantes: "Giants" (185)
Ash Tree Nymphs  (187)

• from Ouranos'  Genitals when they Fell into Pontos :

Aphrodite  (188 - 206)

4. Fourth Brood, Children of Gaia and Pontos (237 -239)
5. Fifth (and Last) Brood, Children of Gaia and Tartaros :

Typhoeus (820)

• The Children of Night  (part 2)
• fathered by Erebos: 124 -  125)
• (produced asexually: 211 - 232)
3. The Line of Pontos
• Children of Pontos produced asexually
1. Nereus (233 - 236)
• Children of Nereus (240 - 264)
• Children of Gaia (Fourth Brood) and Pontos (237 - 239)
1. Thaumas: "Wonderous" (237)
2. Phorkys  (238)
3. Keto or Ceto (238)
4. Eurybie or Eurybia: "Broad Power"  (239)
• Grandchildren of Pontos 
1. Children of Nereus and Doris 

catalog of fifty Nereids (240 - 264)

2. Children of Thaumas  and Elektra

Iris "Rainbow" (265)
The Harpies: Aello and Okypete  (267 -269)

3. Children of Phorkys  and Keto  (270 - 335)

The Graiai
Pemphredo 
Enyo
The Gorgons: Sthenno, Euryale, and Medousa (274 - 277)
Echidna  (295 - 305)
Snake  that guards the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides (333 - 335) 
Children of Medousa  and Poseidon :
Chrysaor
Pegasus
Children of Chrysaor and Kallirhoe 
Geryones
Echidna  (295 - 305)

Children of Echidna  and Typhaon

Orthos
Kerberos or Cerberus   (310 - 312)
Hydra of Lerna (313 - 318)
Chimaira or Chimaera  (319 - 25)

Children of Chimaera and Orthos
Sphinx
Lion of Nemea

Snake  that guards the Golden Apples in the  Garden of the Hesperides (333 - 335)

 

4. Children of the Titans (337 - )
• Line of Okeanos  and Thetys  (337  - 370)
• Line of Hyperion and Theia  (371  - )
• Line of Kreios and Eurybia :  Astraios and Pallas
• Children of Astraios and Eos 
• Children of Styx and Pallas
• line of Phoibe and Koios  (404 -  )
• Leto
• Asteria 
• Hekate
• Line of Rhea and Kronos: The Elder Olympians
• Hestia
• Demeter 
• Hera
• Hades 
• Poseidon
• Zeus
• Line of Iapetos  and Klymene (506 - )
• Atlas 
• Menoitios 
• Prometheus
• Epimetheus
5. Challenges to Zeus
• Prometheus , Sacrifice, Theft of Fire, Pandora ( - 616)
• Titanomachy (617 - 820) 
• Children of Gaia and Tartaros : Typhoeus (820 - 886)
6. Children of the Olympians (886 - )
• Children of Zeus and Metis :
  Tritongeneia (Athena)  and an unborn male child  (886 - 900)
• Children of Zeus and Themis :
  Horai or Horae: "Seasons" 
  Lawfulness Justice  Peace   Fates
• Klotho or Clotho
• Lachesis
• Atropos 
• Children of Zeus and Eurynome :
  Graces
• Aglaia or Aglaea
• Euphrosyne
• Thalia
• Children of Zeus and Demeter :
  Persephone
• Children of Zeus and Mnemosyne 
• Children of Zeus and Leto
• Children of Zeus and Hera
• Birth of Athena (924)
• Birth of Hephaistos  to Hera   (928)
• Children of Poseidon and Amphitrite : Triton  (930 - 933)
• Children of Ares and Aphrodite  (934 - 937)
• Children of Zeus and Maia : Hermes (935 - 940)
• Children of Zeus and Semele : Dionysos or Dionysus (941 - 942)
• Children of Zeus and Alkmene :  Herakles  (943 - 944)
7. Goddesses who bore Children to Mortal Men (965 - 1020)
8. Mortal Women who bore Children to Gods (1021 ff.: the Catalog of Women)

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